{"id":166784,"date":"2025-06-13T22:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/agbakoba-on-tinubus-challenges-in-economic-reform"},"modified":"2025-06-14T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:46:08","slug":"agbakoba-on-tinubus-challenges-in-economic-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agbakoba-on-tinubus-challenges-in-economic-reform","title":{"rendered":"Agbakoba on Tinubu&#8217;s Challenges in Economic Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has said that President Bola Tinubu cannot achieve any meaningful economic reform with the current political governance structure in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Agbakoba stated this on Friday while fielding questions on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme.<\/p>\n<p>The senior lawyer suggested that Tinubu should take some of the powers vested in the exclusive legislative list and transfer them to the state government.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cRight now, the streets are not showing it. It\u2019s a different thing. When the National Bureau of Statistics announces a GDP growth rate of 3.3 per cent, is it happening on the ground where garri, rice, beans, palm oil are crippling people?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the President\u2019s responsibility, which he demonstrated yesterday, is to take on the final two years with vigour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe cannot achieve any economic, meaningful economic reform in the context of the current political governance structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome say restructure, some call it decentralisation, others call it rebalancing. Some call it devolution, whatever name it is, the President, please take some of the powers that have been vested in the exclusive legislative list and transfer them to the state government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the state government itself needs to transfer serious power, real political power, to the 774 local governments so we can have a broad-based three-tier government all focused on the delivery of services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Nigerians want are services: education, health, jobs, security of tenure, good pension, that\u2019s all they want. And the only way that can be achieved is to rejig Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has said that President Bola Tinubu cannot achieve any meaningful economic reform with the current political governance structure in the country. Agbakoba stated this on Friday while fielding questions on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme. 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